Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE PRESIDENCY Week of Reckoning Briefcase-carrying relays of U.S. civilian and military leaders jogged into Augusta's National Golf Club last week to assist vacationing Dwight Eisenhower in nailing down the framework of a balanced budget for fiscal 1961 (beginning next July 1). The week's first...
Early next morning, Ike met for more than an hour with Civilian Space Boss T. Keith Glennan, who bid for a big increase over the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's present $500,575,000 budget. Ike gave no sign of his response. No sooner had Glennan left than...
Strategy, rather than dollars and cents, was the Commander in Chief's concern during the 2½-hour meeting with the military leaders. (Even as he prepared to confer with the President, Army Chief of Staff General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, in a speech read for him in Manhattan, opposed...
Close on the heels of the Joint Chiefs were Budget Director Maurice Stans and Presidential Aide Robert Merriam, who reviewed nonmilitary spending with Ike. Stans also brought bad news: the hopeful forecast of $100 million surplus in fiscal 1960 would likely become a deficit because of the steel strike. "The...
MANY U.S. military men agree that $41 billion a year is enough to buy adequate defense for the nation, but few believe that the $41 billion-plus budget for fiscal 1961 is going to buy the best or even adequate defense. Though drafted over months of round-the-clock work...